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3[[quoteright:341:[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Four_Fingered_Hands_3338.png]]]]
4[[caption-width-right:341:"Five fingers... ooh, freak show!"]]
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6->''"Yo, I'm Casper! 'Sup? Gimme four!... Oh, God, I'd kill for a pinky."''
7-->-- '''Casper''', ''Film/{{Casper}}''
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9Why do so many cartoon characters only have a thumb and three fingers? Simple: a four-fingered hand is SO much easier to draw than a five-fingered hand. Plus, it simplifies the design of the hand in the same way the rest of the body is simplified.
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11Although this simplification has been on a decline in cartoons starring people, it has never completely gone away. This only appears in more "cartoony" styles; action or dramatic series won't usually use this, and it rarely shows up in Japanese works for several reasons:
12* {{Yakuza}} members traditionally [[{{Yubitsume}} chop off fingers]] if they are unable to pay back a debt, or as punishment for other offences that don't warrant death.
13* The four-fingered hand is taken as a derogatory and often offensive reference to the ''burakumin'' caste (four fingers = four legs = animals; also, it's easy to [[{{Fingore}} lose a finger]] through the sort of dangerous labour to which ''burakumin'' are often relegated).
14* The number four in Japanese [[FourIsDeath also means death]] and is seen as highly unlucky.
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16(This only really applies to human characters: there are still plenty of animal, alien, or monster characters with eight fingers, most likely due to some form of WhatMeasureIsANonHuman)
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18Quite often, Western four-fingered characters have to be edited to have a fifth finger. Interestingly, this does ''not'' include Creator/{{Disney}} characters such as WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, despite [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Disney's popularity in Japan]]--see ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''. Not a fan of their works being edited in any way, [[ExecutiveMeddling Disney is said to have paid USD 5 million a year to Japanese pressure groups to avoid being sued for Mickey's "insulting" four-fingered hands]].[[note]]This was mentioned by the creators of the ''VideoGame/{{Oddworld}}'' video game franchise in [[https://books.google.com/books?id=6t6iL4wlfDcC&lpg=PA45&ots=Gfbc_5F1ds&dq=oddworld%20japan%20four%20fingers&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=false their book]], where they also say they had to edit a finger off the player's character to avoid similar extortion.[[/note]]
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20This trope is not limited to depiction of humanlike characters: Animal characters (from ''any'' point along the SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism) can also be depicted with a reduced number of digits on each paw when compared to its real-life equivalent -- typically three visible toes on a given foot rather than four (although some of the earliest cartoons simplified it even further, depicting only two digits on a given foot). Actually, sometimes, the fact that the characters are not humans provides an excuse.
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22{{Funny Animal}}s in particular often combine four-fingered hands with three-toed feet. This is excusable when human characters in the same context also exhibit four-fingered hands, but it can be jarring if the humans have five-fingered hands, or if ''other'' animals in the same context are depicted with the correct number of digits.
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24Those with four-fingered hands are often seen wearing WhiteGloves.
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26Compare FingerlessHands, when a character has ''completely'' no fingers. Contrast ExtraDigits when a character has more than 5 fingers and/or toes.
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29!!Examples Subpages:
30[[index]]
31* FourFingeredHands/WesternAnimation
32[[/index]]
33!!Other Examples:
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37[[folder:Advertising]]
38* Spoofed in an Oreo commercial which shows the mascot (a giant Oreo cookie) struggling to get through a security system. At one point he comes upon a hand scanner and presses his left hand to it; when nothing happens, he adds one finger from his right hand, which is good enough to open the door.
39* The Kool Aid Man has four fingers on each hand.
40* Complementing their WhiteGloves, all the Advertising/MAndMs characters have four fingers per hand.
41* Creator/DisneyChannel had a short commercial celebrating their 10 year anniversary which spoofed this. WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse's hand would pop up, counting off the fingers, then the second hand would pop up and count off fingers. There was a slight pause for the viewer to realize that's only 8 fingers, then a third hand would pop up and count off two more fingers.
42* Out of the six Advertising/MonsterCereals characters, four of them (Frankenberry, Boo Berry, Fruit Brute, and Fruity Yummy Mummy) have four-fingered hands. In contrast, Count Chocula and Carmella Creeper have five-fingered hands, keeping the two of them more detailed, though their fingers are much slimmer than the others in comparison as well. Frankenberry originally had five-fingered hands, primarily thanks to being {{rotoscop|ing}}ed over for a scene in early commercials to lift up a piece of live action cereal, but swapped to four fingers later.
43* The Eggo Waffle "Waf-Full" commercials featured a giant cartoon waffle that had four fingers per hand.
44* ''Advertising/CapnCrunch'': The Captain has these.
45* ''Advertising/TrixRabbit'': The Rabbit has these. In many commercials, the kids also have these.
46* ''Advertising/SnapCrackleAndPop'': All three characters have these.
47* The eponymous mascot of the Filipino fast food restaurant chain, Jollibee, has them, as well as Yum, Hetty, Popo and Twirlie.
48* Miraitowa and Someity, the mascots for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games are depicted with two fingers and a thumb on each hand, though they each have a larger finger on both hands that resembles other fingers merged together.
49* Dot and Dash, the mascots of Creator/PBSKids from 1999 to 2013, have these whenever their hands aren't drawn as just circles.
50* The Advertising/EnergizerBunny has hands with only three fingers and a thumb on them. This is much more obvious post-SpecialEffectsEvolution into full CGI.
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53[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
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55* The introduction to one ''Manga/AstroBoy'' manga chapter has Tezuka discussing how he's drawn Astro with four or five fingers at different times.
56* ''Manga/DragonBall'':
57** Piccolo and other Namekians have four-fingered hands in the manga. This is lampshaded when declares that he'll finish Goku off in 5 seconds and holds up a hand [[SuddenAnatomy with five fingers]], which the author points out with text beneath the panel. For the anime, this was changed to five due to Japanese broadcast regulations, for the given reasons above.
58** Other characters such as the humanoid animals or aliens also have different numbers of fingers. The author constantly mistakes the numbers of fingers on these characters. A good example is Kyui, who has five fingers in some panels and four in others.
59** Majin Buu: In the manga, he has two stubby fingers and a similar thumb in his Super Buu form, four-fingered, somewhat stubby hands after absorbing the aforementioned Piccolo and Gotenks, the standard five-fingered hands at his most humanoid after absorbing Gohan, AND a mitten-like hand with a lone thumb and stubby finger as Kid Buu. In the anime, however, he has standard five-fingered hands in all instances. Like Piccolo, this is because of broadcast regulations.
60** Frieza's henchman Sorbet has three fingers and a thumb in the movie ''Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF'' and his brief appearance in the ''Manga/DragonBallSuper'' manga, but has five fingers in the ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' TV anime.
61* The final ''J9 Trilogy'' {{Super Robot|Genre}}, Sasuraiger, has four red, clawlike fingers formed from its train-mode's cowcatcher... which is a strange thing for it to have, considering it's actually a spaceship designed to look like a train and there aren't many cows in space, but that's neither here nor there. [[OffModel The animators sometimes forget this, however, and if you look closely in some scenes it'll have standard, humanoid hands]].
62* ''Manga/{{Patalliro}}'': Sometimes Patalliro is depicted with only four fingers.
63* Zeromaru, one of the protagonists of ''Manga/DigimonVTamer01'', is first seen with four fingers/claws, though he eventually grows a fifth, or rather, "{{evol|utionarylevels}}ves" into a form with a fifth. Four whatever reason, other monsters of his initial form are always given five fingers/claws in every other franchise work.
64* The mecha in ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders'' are an odd variation - their hands have three fingers and ''two thumbs''.
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68* Depending on the season, the characters in ''Animation/GGBond'' have either four-fingered or five-fingered hands.
69* All of the characters in ''Animation/HappyHeroes'' have four-fingered hands.
70* All the ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' characters have four fingers on their hands.
71* All characters in ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'' have four fingers on their hands.
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75* The magi in the ''TabletopGame/MagiNation'' card game have four digits on each hand, though this stems from the original art style. They are also not human, but from a fantastic world. Of course, the animated series uses five-fingered hands.
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78[[folder:Comic Books]]
79* Almost all of the ''ComicBook/{{Bamse}}'' characters have four-fingered hands or FeatherFingers.
80* On the other (ahem) hand, the elves, preservers and trolls of ''Comicbook/ElfQuest'' are not four-fingered representations of five-fingered characters. They really ''do'' have only four fingers on each hand. After a few issues, the authors realized that they should logically count in base-eight, and the elves are {{retcon}}ned to do exactly that; Cutter gets the slightly less catchy title of "Blood-Of-Eight-And-Two-Chiefs".
81** Which makes no sense, given that 'base eight' does not mean 'only eight numbers' ('base-six' goes 'one two three four five ten', so base eight would be 'one two three four five six seven ten').
82** Lampshaded at least once: Cutter, attacked by a human, proposes to rectify the man's problem of an overpopulated hand as he cuts off one of his fingers.
83** Much later in the series, a culture of elf-worshipping humans amputated the little fingers and surgically altered the ears of their ruling elite, believing this could make them immortal.
84* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': Clayface is often depicted with only four fingers per hand. Somewhat justified in that he can shapeshift, though why he would prefer having four fingers over five is unknown.
85* Creator/MarvelComics:
86** One of the effects of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Ben Grimm's]] transformation into ComicBook/TheThing is that he now has four fingers and toes. In one ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' comic where he continues to mutate, he actually develops (devolves?) down to three-fingered hands.
87** Comicbook/XMen's ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}}, has three-fingered hands and feet. The ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' version of Nightcrawler has some kind of holographic disguise that makes him look like a factory-standard human. Whenever he's in disguise, his fingers stick together in a Vulcan-salute formation. So does his AlternateUniverse daughter, Nocturne. Also [[Characters/XMenMojoverse Longshot]], though it's due to his alien/technomagical origins.
88** In ''Series/{{ALF}}'', issue 29, "Used Karma!":
89--->'''Brian''': Give me a high-five, so I know you're alive!\
90'''ALF''': How about a high-four, 'cause I ain't got any more!
91* Everyone in ''Comicbook/{{normalman}}''. A few such characters (like norm's girlfriend the Countess) are drawn less cartoonishly than others and it looks ''really'' weird on them. When norm found himself in the American frontier in the 1800s, the frontiersman he befriended saw his hands and chuckled to himself about "when cousins marry..."
92* ''Three Fingers'' explores this; it is a pastiche of the AnimatedActors idea, specifically the ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' [[RogerRabbitEffect concept that toons and humans coexist in the real world]]. Toons are born with a full set of five fingers, but the first toon actor to achieve real fame was Rickey Rat, a mutated toon born with only four. Toons were described as superstitious, and so many other toons began to mutilate themselves, having a finger removed in order to become successful in Hollywood; the book explores this shadowy ritual in-depth. The book is drawn in the narrative style of a TV {{documentary}}, like the TrueHollywoodStory or a Ken Burns film, mostly interviewees talking to the camera, with photographs intercut.
93* One episode of the ''ComicBook/{{Futurama}}'' comic takes place in a freak show. Exhibits include Zoidberg's uncle, a bearded lady, and a five-fingered man.
94* Ivy the Terrible in ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' has four fingers, but oddly enough, other characters in her comic have five.
95* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' has both the four-fingered and five-fingered hands. The SEGA-based heroes and the normal humans have five fingers while those from the Saturday morning ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' series or OriginalGeneration characters have four fingers. The humans with four fingers were given the name "Overlanders", while five-fingered humans are still referred to as "humans". This was lampshaded in the original miniseries where a fish robot attacks a drawing of Sonic on a rock, then mumbles about how he should have realized it was fake because it had four fingers.
96* This happens to Steve Harmon when he's in his [[Comicbook/TheAwesomeSlapstick Slapstick]] form, since he was wearing his oversized four-fingered toon gloves when he got his powers.
97* ''Franchise/TheSmurfs'' have four-fingered hands and four-toed feet, while the humans they encounter have five-fingered hands. In their first comic book appearance in ''[[Comicbook/JohanAndPeewit The Smurfs and the Magic Flute]]'', they were originally drawn with five fingers. In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsAChristmasCarol'', their human nemesis Gargamel has ''four fingers''.
98* ''Comicbook/{{Firebreather}}'': Half-dragon Duncan Rosenblatt plays this for laughs in the comic book. After being called to the principal's office, a teacher stops him for a hall pass. He promptly tries various pockets, leaving one out to show the teacher. Once in the principal's office, he shows his four fingered hand and asks "Help me out, which one is "the bird"?" Oddly, the animated film gives him five fingers.
99* Lampshaded in a [[LongRunners long-running]] Polish series of comic books, ''Comicbook/TytusRomekIAtomek''. Tytus complains about the [[BigDamnMovie 2002 animated movie]] because [[TakeThat they "chopped off two of his fingers,"]] while in the comic books he was always drawn with five fingers on each hand.
100* The title story in ''ComicBook/{{Werner}} Volle Latte!'' {{lampshade|Hanging}}s ''Werner'''s four-fingered hands (and the artist Brösel's inability to draw women) with Werner's dream woman drawn by Jörg Reymann (both actually and InUniverse). Reymann used his own drawing style and gave her five fingers which Brösel's AuthorAvatar later points out explicitly, worrying how many fingers her kids with Werner would have.
101* ComicBook/BlueDevil in the ''ComicBook/{{New 52}}'' has four-fingered hands. Out of costume, though, he has five-fingered hands. Justified, as the costume is magical.
102* The titular character in ''ComicBook/TheScrameustache'', who is an alien hybrid, has four-fingered hands, as do the Galaxians (also aliens). The humans and HumanAliens all have five-fingered hands.
103* Violator's [[MonsterClown clown]] form in ''Comicbook/{{Spawn}}'' has four fingers per hand. Since everyone else has five fingers, this is part of his human form being not quite right.
104* In ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye,'' most Cybertronians have five fingers on their hands. Swerve, the loudmouthed bartender on the Lost Light, has four. There are also occasional characters who have claws in place of hands, like Whirl, but that's acknowledged InUniverse as the result of mutilation (the corrupt pre-war government would replace hands and faces with claws and cyclopean features as a form of public shaming).
105* In ''ComicBook/AlbedoErmaFelnaEDF'' most of the anthropomorphic animal characters have four digits on their hands and use a base-eight numerical system (translated into base-ten for readers). Specifically noted when a [[spoiler: human]] ship is found with a base-ten number pad on the door.
106* ''{{ComicBook/Norby}}'': The human characters are drawn with normal five-fingered hands, but Norby only has four fingers on each hand.
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109[[folder:Comic Strips]]
110* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', most of the characters have four fingers [[https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1985/12/01 but in one panel of a strip]], Calvin is drawn with five fingers on one hand and four fingers on the other by mistake.
111* The majority of comic strips such as ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' follow this rule. Lampshaded in [[https://foxtrot.com/2022/03/27/comical-signs/ one strip]] where Peter goes through baseball pitching code, assigning five fingers to a knuckleball... and says to skip it, since not only do they only have four fingers, they don't have knuckles either.
112* ''ComicStrip/{{Crabgrass}}'': All characters have four fingered hands.
113* ''ComicStrip/TheOptimist'' occasionally loses a finger, seen [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110108120302/http://the-opt.com/?p=128 here,]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110108055824/http://the-opt.com/?p=805 here,]] and [[https://web.archive.org/web/20100514121525/http://the-opt.com/?p=14 here.]]
114* Everyone in ''Comicstrip/{{Garfield}}'', including the title character, who shouldn't even have fingers ''at all'', being a cat.
115* Parodied in one strip in the Finnish ''ComicStrp/{{Fingerpori}}''[[note]]the name has no relation to the topic[[/note]] when it's implied that the reason this applies to characters from Duckburg[=/=]Mousetown[[note]]Mousetown is usually assimilated with Duckburg in Finnish translations of ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics[[/note]] is because [[BlackComedy Goofy is in charge of teaching kids how to use a bandsaw.]]
116* While the human ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' characters have five fingers per hand, Snoopy and his siblings have four.
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119[[folder:Eastern Animation]]
120* Guda-Guda and the girl in ''Animation/IllReturnAsTheRain'' both have four fingers on their hands.
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123[[folder:Fan Works]]
124* ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesGetXtreme'' lampshades this in a {{Crossover}} with ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', where Odie and him share a "four-three" instead of a "high-five" (since Garfield has four fingers and Odie has three).
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127[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
128* Averted with [[TokenHuman Boo]], who has five fingers, but played straight with the monsters in ''Franchise/MonstersInc'', who tend to have four fingers. There are exceptions; the monster who counts down to the beginning of scare floor activities in the [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1 first movie]] starts with "we are on in seven..." and holds out his ''seven''-fingered hand, and certain characters from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' have different hands, such as Don Carlton with his tentacles and Squishy with his FingerlessHands.
129* Abu and the Genie have four-fingered hands while the rest of the human cast of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' has five... except for the merchant who narrates the opening. Originally, he was supposed to be revealed as Genie at the end of the film, and while that was left off the final cut, the design remained. This was sort of lampshaded in the ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' episode "Eye of the Beholder", in which Genie tries to place his hand onto a handprint on a door to opening, but because said print has five fingers, Genie magically conjures up a fifth one. In the original film, when Genie is telling Aladdin about the genie rules and limits on wishes, he briefly conjures an extra four fingers on his left hand, bringing that hands total count to eight. Interestingly, Jafar still has five fingers in genie form, and Eden, a female genie in the series, has five.
130* In (most of) the WesternAnimation/DotAndTheKangaroo sequels, Dot has four fingers on each hand and four toes on each foot as do other human characters, in contrast to the original film where everyone has the right number of digits.
131* Everyone in ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' has four-fingered hands, except Lisa, who is clearly seen with five fingers in each hand.
132* The Blue Meanies in ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' have '''[[ExtraDigits six]]''' fingers. At least, their leader does.
133* In 1937's ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', Snow White and the Prince have five fingers on each hand, but the more cartoony Dwarfs only have four. Strangely on the 1987 reissue poster, Sleepy is seen with four on one hand and five on the other.
134* Like his cartoon counterpart, Mr. Peabody in ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'' though subverted with Sherman, who now has five fingers unlike his cartoon counterpart.
135* In ''WesternAnimation/GrandmaGotRunOverByAReindeer'' everyone has four fingers, despite the characters being drawn semi-realistically.
136* WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} has four fingers as a puppet, but has five fingers after he's been turned into a human at the end of the film. Geppetto, Stromboli, Lampwick, and all the other humans have five fingers each, but for some reason, the Coachman only has four. Justified for the Coachman: he's implied to not really be a "human…" Also justified for Pinocchio, since he's a puppet. Honest John the fox and Gideon the cat have four-fingered hands. Jiminy Cricket usually has four fingers, though in the educational short "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Pn92tUG2Q You and Your Food]]", he [[http://i.imgur.com/oF0XT.jpg suddenly has five]] when explaining the five food groups.
137* Interestingly, both played straight and averted in ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''. Of the three games original to the film, only the characters from cutesy racer ''Sugar Rush'' have four-fingered hands. Characters from ''Hero's Duty'' have five fingers befitting its realistic looking design and characters from ''Fix-It Felix Jr.'' have five fingers befitting its supposed origin as an '80s Japanese-made arcade game. [[spoiler: Oddly, the 1980 character Turbo, who otherwise has rather cartoony features like Felix and Ralph (rather than the {{Animesque}} look of the Sugar Rush characters), only has four fingers, even when out of disguise.]] It should also be noted that ''Sugar Rush'' is supposed to be a Japanese-developed game, and Japanese-made characters usually don't have four fingers for reasons listed above.
138* Madame Souza of ''WesternAnimation/TheTripletsOfBelleville'' has only four fingers, though her hands are otherwise realistic.
139* Played with in the fourth ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' movie, where Leo Wong is dealing poker to Bender who ends up with five kings (the regular four plus a coaster that has the "King of Beers" on it). To illustrate Leo holds up a single five-fingered hand long enough for the audience to go "what the hell, he has five fingers."
140* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Planet 51}}'', Chuck Baker, the human astronaut, has five fingers on each hand, but the aliens have only four.
141* Inversion: in ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'', EvilChancellor Zigzag has ''six''-fingered hands.
142* While most of the cast of ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' have five fingers, the trolls have four.
143* All of the human characters in ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' have five fingers, but the robot Baymax only has four.
144* Every character in ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}''. In the sequel, only the non-human characters; an AnimationBump resulted in all the humans gaining a fifth finger.
145* All the ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'' have them, while the other characters have five-fingered hands. It's Winnie pointing out the difference that convinces Eggs that he's a human.
146* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', while Jack Skellington has four fingers, Sally has five. This varies throughout the cast: The witches and humans have five fingers, but the Mayor and Lock, Shock & Barrel have four fingers...
147* While Professor Ratigan, the main villain of ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'', has five fingers, everyone else is drawn with four fingers.
148* In ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'', most of the humans are depicted with five-fingered hands. The only character to avert this rule is Louie the hot dog vendor, who for some reason only has four fingers on each hand.
149* In ''WesternAnimation/MaryAndMax'', every character has four fingers, despite the semi-realistic atmosphere.
150* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Emoji Movie}}'', Flamenca, Akiko Glitter, the internet trolls and all the human characters have five fingers on each hand, but the emojis have only four. And all the hand emojis have five fingers, but they only have legs.
151* In nearly all of the works of ''Creator/AardmanAnimations'', including ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit'', the human characters always have five-fingered hands, while animal characters and machines usually have four or less.
152* In ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'', likely as a nod to classic cartoons, all the non human characters wear WhiteGloves and have four fingers per hand.
153* ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'': All the humans have these.
154* ''{{WesternAnimation/Trolls}}'': All the characters have these, but that doesn't stop one character from asking for a high five at one point.
155* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Dumbo}}'', the only characters to have four fingers are Timothy Q. Mouse and the clowns.
156* In ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'', Robin has four fingers, like most characters, but Prince John has five.
157* In ''WesternAnimation/WereBackADinosaursStory'', most of the humans are depicted with five-fingered hands. The only characters to avert this rule are Stubbs the Clown, who for some reason only has four fingers on each hand, and also Dr. Julia Bleeb. Also, Louie and Cecilia who are transformed into apes by Professor Screweyes.
158* ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland1951'' goes all over the place with this trope. The human characters (Alice, the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts, etc.) have proper five-fingered hands, but so do the Walrus and the Dodo, while the cards and the other non-human animals appear to have four digits on each hand.
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162[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
163* Justified in ''Film/{{Splice}}''. Dren has three fingers and a thumb on each hand, due to the fact that she a hybrid creature spliced from a unholy mixture of animals' DNA that widely varies in the amount of fingers each species has.
164* Lampshaded in ''Film/{{Casper}}'' from 1995. (Though ''why'' a ghost loses a finger when they die is never explained.)
165--> '''Casper:''' ''(practicing ways to introduce himself)'' 'Sup, I'm Casper. Give me four! ...god, I'd kill for a pinky.
166* ''Film/{{Avatar}}'':
167** The Na'vi have four fingers, four toes, and a base eight counting system. Given that the film's budget dwarfs many countries' annual budgets, this was probably just to be alien. The [[HalfHumanHybrid avatars]] have five, so it would seem intentional.
168** PlayedForDrama in ''Film/AvatarTheWayOfWater'', where Jake moves the family to a community of Reef People Na'vi. Jake's kids already stand out (Reef People are lighter blue and have swimming adaptations like thicker tails and fins), but the fact that they have five fingers gets them called freaks. His son Lo'ak gets in a fight when he demonstrates to a bully that he can do something special with those five fingers... namely, deck him in the face. Their five fingers also allows the RDA troops to easily identify Jake's kids.
169* ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries''
170** Bumblebee in ''Film/Transformers2007'' film has these, as do Jazz, Barricade, Megatron, "Dispensor" and Bonecrusher.
171** ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' also gives these to Mudflap, Skids, Jetfire and Wheelie.
172** ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'' gives us Que, Brains, Soundwave, Shockwave and several generics. Laserbeak, when disguised as a pink Bumblebee, also has these[[note]]his normal form has wings, and thus, no fingers[[/note]].
173** There are several other characters either have three fingers (Sideswipe, Blackout[=/=][[PaletteSwap Grindor]] and Brawl, to name a few) or more than five (Starscream and The Fallen, who have six and eight, respectively).
174* Inverted in ''Film/{{Gattaca}}'': the pianist has six fingered hands (which exists in real life, but often removed), and he plays music you couldn't play with five-fingered hands. Well, he doesn't, but [[BellisariosMaxim just roll with it]].
175* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
176** Zig-zagged by Grevious. At first he has two six-fingered hands, including two thumbs. But he can divide his arms, then he has four three-fingered hands.
177** Since they have only eight fingers, Hutts use a base-8 counting system. Zero through seven mean the same thing in both Huttese and Basic, but anything after that is just plain confusing, which many other races have been swindled by. If they want t avoid confusion Hutts will use base-10.
178* Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'s stone hand has only four fingers.
179* Cherno Alpha, Crimson Typhoon[[note]]who also has a three-fingered left hand[[/note]] and a few of the {{Kaiju}} in ''Film/PacificRim''.
180* Many kaiju from numerous franchises that use elements of [[{{Franchise/Godzilla}} Godzilla's]] design followed his lead, with the King of the Monsters himself having three fingers and a thumb.
181* Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial has four fingers on each hand.
182* ''Film/KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace'': The Klowns. Justified because they are aliens.
183* ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'': The Cat has these just like his [[Literature/TheCatInTheHat book]] counterpart, complete with WhiteGloves. Lampshaded at one point.
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186[[folder:Literature]]
187* The Kzinti from the ''Literature/KnownSpace'' universe have four fingers on each hand. Bonus points are awarded for having a base-eight mathematical system, which plays havoc with the humans they meet.
188* Most faerie species in ''Literature/TheSpiderwickChronicles'' (except ogres and giants which have 6 fingers).
189* In ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'', the ape-man cites his own aversion of this trope as a sign that he's a better "man" than the other beastfolk, most of whom have four or fewer digits on each hand.
190* In ''[[Literature/WhoCensoredRogerRabbit Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?]]'', it's mentioned that Toon cigars resemble dynamite, and sometimes there's real dynamite mixed in--explaining why so many Toons have only four fingers. (Oddly enough, when [[spoiler:[[HumanityEnsues Roger temporarily becomes human]], he suddenly has five fingers, much to his confusion]].)
191* The Centaurians in ''Literature/ThePentagonWar'' have 4 tentacle-fingers on each hand. And they have four hands.
192* In the ''Literature/MrMen'' series, all the Mr. Men and Little Misses have four-fingered hands.
193* In the furry novel ''Literature/TheFangsOfKaath'' the characters have three fingers and a thumb. And are mentioned once to count in base eight.
194* OlderThanPrint: The Grolier Codex, a 900 year old Mayan astronomy guide, contains depictions of humans with four-fingered hands.
195* Characters having four-fingered hands is the standard in many children's books, such as ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' and ''Literature/FrannyKStein''.
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198[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
199* Tall tale teller Hap Shaughnessy of ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'' once claimed to be the one who convinced Creator/WaltDisney to do this. He says he saved Walt 20% on his hand animation costs.
200* Discussed on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Tara comments that if they were animated, they'd have to have four fingers, and wear WhiteGloves to compensate.
201* Creator/WalterEmanuelJones, the [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers first-ever Black Ranger]], was born with only three fingers and a thumb on one hand. He would often wear a prosthetic finger on set.
202* The Silence in ''Series/DoctorWho''.
203* ''Series/TheImperfects'': [[spoiler:Nate]] has these in Episode 7 following [[spoiler:his]] transformation.
204* Emperor Banba of ''Series/{{Inazuman}}'' only has two large fingers and thumb on his right-hand.
205* While the title character on ''Series/{{ALF}}'' has four-fingered hands, the humans (and certain Melmacians -- maybe it's a genetic trait?) have five. When Brian is recovered from a crooked used car salesman (as in, selling '''stolen''' cars), this exchange happens over a high-four-and-a-half, to take the average:
206-->'''Brian:''' Give me a high-five, so I know you're alive!\
207'''Alf:''' How about a high-four-- 'cause I ain't got any more!
208* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': The Enterprise's Scotty only had three fingers on one hand owing to an injury James Doohan sustained in the war. Doohan took great pains to hide his missing middle finger all his acting life.
209* The short-lived pricing game [[http://www.gameshowgarbage.com/ind056_professorprice.html "Professor Price"]] on ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' had the titular puppet used to count right and wrong answers being given four fingers on each hand to avoid an accidental [[FlippingTheBird middle finger]].
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213* The members of the [[VirtualCelebrity animated band]] Music/{{Savlonic}} have four-fingered hands, which is especially noticeable in shots of the keyboardist playing music she couldn't actually do without another finger.
214* The cover of Kanye West's Heartbreak album has two hands with four fingers.
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218* The characters in ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' have four-fingered hands. This is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d when Earl is on drugs and [[ContemplatingYourHands he wonders why they have 8 fingers but use a counting system based on 10.]]
219* Most characters in ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' have four fingers, even when the puppeteer wears the hand as a glove. Exceptions include Kermit and Dr. Teeth. The Swedish Chef, being a character who has to manipulate things, just has Creator/FrankOz's hands. Gonzo only has ''three'' fingers on each hand!
220* Likewise, most Muppets on ''Series/SesameStreet'' have four fingers on each hand, but Big Bird has three, and Cookie Monster has five.
221* Star from ''Series/TheGoodNightShow'' has four fingers, as mentioned in one real kids segment.
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224[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
225* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': In the 4th edition, [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent minotaurs]] and dragonborn are shown with three fingers and a thumb on each hand. They're the only non-human races with this array of digits. Minotaurs also have cloven hooves for feet, while Dragonborn have four-toed paws.
226* ''TabletopGame/MagiNation'': The magi have four fingers, but they're not strictly human. However, one artist goofed up in the first edition of the game and drew a magi (Grega) with five fingers. When the error was noticed, the game company decided to roll with it and say she descended from a five-fingered magi.
227* ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'': The Aslan have four digits per hand, and count in base eight. (Their leadership is called the "Tlaukhu", translated as "Twenty-Nine"; it's more literally three eights and five.) "Toons" has been mentioned as a derogatory nickname for them, because of the four-fingered hands association.
228* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
229** The Tau and Kroot only have four digits a hand. The fluff has the Tau logically using a base eight system.
230** The Orks, on the other hand (or possibly paw), have five fingers but use base six numbering. Which actually makes a certain amount of sense if you use the other hand for the second digit. Of course, this being ''Warhammer 40000'' it all started as a joke on the theme of Orks being too stupid to count higher, to the point where they had specialist mutations (like Mekboyz and Doks) called "sumboyz" who were effectively Orky accountants because they knew the numbers that came after "lotz".
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233[[folder:Theme Parks]]
234* At the Ride/DisneyThemeParks, Meet and Greet versions of any characters with four fingers will have the proper amount of digits by way of four fingered gloves.
235
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237
238[[folder:Toys]]
239* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' could never make up its mind:
240** The original figures had either [[FingerlessHands no real hands]], or only two fingers or three claws. Only much later figures received articulate, fingered hands, usually the larger ones, and these had four. In '09, this phenomenon reached the smaller and medium-sized toys, as they got four-fingered graspers.
241** All of the prominent characters from the first two DirectToVideo movies had five fingers, save for those that had claws (Nidhiki, Pewku), no hands at all (Vahki robots), or had just plain weird-looking hands (Krekka). Then, by the third movie, all of the new or newly transformed characters were outfitted with only four. In the fourth movie, which wasn't part of the original trilogy, they also had four, but this time it was because the toys also had that many.
242** The video game ''Bionicle: Heroes'' also decided to give the Piraka and Toa Inika four fingers, which is an understandable example of ArtisticLicense, since their figures had no fingers at all, save for Toa Nuparu's huge claws.
243* Toys/{{Minimates}} generally have formless hands with no fingers, but on occasions when fingers are required, the toys have three fingers and a thumb. In keeping with this reduction, when they made a Minimate of the ComicBook/FantasticFour's Thing, he was dropped down to two big fingers instead of his usual three.
244* Disney's [[http://m.disneystore.com/plush-toys-mickey-mitts-plush-mickey-mouse-gloves/mp/1279429/1000267/ Mickey Mitts Plush Mickey Mouse Gloves]] play with this. They stay true to the original, [[AwesomeButImpractical making them impractical to actually wear]].
245* Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}}' ''Super Hero Squad'' toyline, as well as [[WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow the]] [[VideoGame/SuperHeroSquadOnline products]] derived from it.
246* In ''Toys/TheGrosseryGang'', any humans in supplemental materials, along with any adaptations where the Grosseries have limbs, give them four fingers. Despite this, Sewer Glove, a Grossery based on a cleaning glove, has five fingers.
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249[[folder:Video Games]]
250* ''VideoGame/AmateurSurgeon'''s human cast all have four fingers in each hand. This is one of the least noticeable [[HeartInTheWrongPlace anatomical]] [[ArtisticLicenseBiology errors]] in the series- the one operation featuring hands has you [[ItMakesSenseInContext grafting thumbs to a pig's hooves.]]
251* ''VideoGame/ArTonelicoMelodyOfElemia'' uses it due to sprites limitations, despite being both fairly serious and Japanese. Especially noticeable during Aurica's VictoryPose (she makes a V sign). Of course {{Character Portrait}}s depict their hands normally.
252* All characters in ''VideoGame/BackyardSports'' originally had four fingers on each hand. Somehow, they each grew another finger later.
253* In ''VideoGame/{{Balatro}}'', The Four Fingers Joker, which reduces the number of cards needed to form a Straight or Flush to four, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin is a four-fingered hand]], unlike the Grabber Voucher, which has five.
254* Banjo the bear in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'', made by the British company Creator/{{Rare}}, has four fingers. Strangely, his design in the Japanese-made ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' still shows him with four fingers, despite the other cartoon mammalian characters having either three or five (with the latter being the case with the ''Smash'' redesigns of their fellow Rare creations from the ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' games)[[note]]or in [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing Isabelle]]'s case, [[FingerlessHands none]][[/note]].
255* Along with their angular features, the Jennerit race from ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'' is known for their four-fingered hands. Both traits set them apart from more "human" denizens of the universe.
256* Played with in ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'':
257** The game has six [[{{Toon}} cartoon characters:]] Bendy, Boris the Wolf, Alice Angel, Charley, Barley, and Edgar. They all have four fingers in their cartoons. They also all have real-life counterparts by the time the game begins, but only four of the real-life characters have four fingers on each hand.
258*** Averted by the real-life versions of the fallen angel, "Alice," who have five fingers on their hands.
259*** Partly defied by the Ink Demon, "Bendy," in that one hand has five fingers, human proportions, and no glove; and the other hand has four fingers, is larger than the first hand, and wears the usual cartoony WhiteGloves.
260** The game also has Sammy Lawrence having four fingers, even though he was originally human. This is an effect [[TheCorruption The Ink]] had on him.
261** There are also three- and four-fingered handprints among the many in the area with the boarded-up doorway that says "NOT MONSTERS" in Chapter 5.
262* Most of ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}''’s characters have four fingers, including the main characters, except for Captain Brineybeard and Glumstone the Giant.
263* As if he weren't mysterious enough, [=Zer0=] of ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' is the only character in the game that has only four fingers, making even his species ambiguous.
264* Lance Galahad has them by example in ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'', along with other characters.
265* Many of the Non-Human characters in the ''VideoGame/BreathOfFire'' universe only have four-fingered hands. Garr and Jean are the most noticeable ones, though.
266* Perhaps a testament to just how serious ''VideoGame/DragonBallOnline'' was to throwing out all innovations from the show, all the characters that originally had four (or less) fingers in the comic do in the game, most noticeably every last Namekian.
267* As he's a monkey, it would normally be acceptable, but [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry Diddy Kong]] gets a special mention: he had four fingers when he was still owned by Rare (which is British), but (probably because of the Yakuza concern mentioned in the intro) he switched over to five fingers when Nintendo (which is Japanese) took over. This somehow ends up making him a bit more anatomically accurate, since real life monkeys have five-fingered hands like humans.
268* The [[SeriesMascot Vault Boy]] from ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' is illustrated like a 1950's cartoon character.
269** Also played straight by some of the [[NuclearMutant mutants]].
270* All player characters in ''VideoGame/FatPrincess'' have four-fingered hands. Edited to be five fingers in the Japanese release. (See Above)
271* The animatronics in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' are four-fingered cartoon animals. In addition the Puppet has three-fingered [[CreepyLongFingers noodle hands]] and Balloon Boy has [[FingerlessHands nub-like hands with holes]].
272** Subverted by [[HairRaisingHare Springtrap]] who was [[FlawedPrototype supposed]] to be wearable.
273** Also subverted by the Nightmare Animatronics, who have claw-like hands.
274* In ''VideoGame/{{Glover}}'', you play as a four-fingered glove. Justified as the thumb and ring fingers are his arms, and the index and middle fingers are his legs. Having a fifth finger would be...
275* All of the characters in ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'' have four-fingered hands, despite being human skeletons (or Calaca dolls, depending on who you ask).
276* ''VideoGame/HalfLife'': Vortigaunts have three arms, with the third one growing straight out of the chest, with two fingers on each, and their feet don't seem to have toes, instead ending in a pyramidal... claw, let's call it.
277* The vast majority of alien species in ''Franchise/MassEffect'' have only three fingers. The only exceptions are the asari, batarians, and drell, who have human-like hands, and the [[StarfishAliens hanar]], who have tendrils instead of normal limbs. Fans have made jokes about how hard it must be to buy gloves if you have human fingers.
278* Goemon in the first Super Nintendo ''VideoGame/GanbareGoemon'' game was accidentally drawn with four fingers during the game's introductory sequence. He somehow managed to grow that missing finger back later in the game. This was probably an error by one of the game's sprite artists.
279* The [[BirdPeople Chozo]] in ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' have four fingers, a rare sight for sympathetic and intelligent characters in Japanese games. The ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy'' also portrays the SpacePirates with three fingers.
280* In the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' franchise, the Shokan (Goro and Sheeva, for example) have three fingers per hand. However, each Shokan has [[MultiArmedAndDangerous four arms]].
281* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'': Furis, Diavlos and Zommers (different types of monsters) all have only four fingers on each hand, as does Commander Sassafras, one of the CartoonCreature villains.
282* The amateur-produced InteractiveFiction game ''VideoGame/TheMulldoonLegacy'' has a puzzle involving aliens whose solution involves realizing [[spoiler:you're dealing with base-6 mathematical system, because that's the number of fingers the aliens have]]. The game includes an alien skeleton, with the appropriate detail mentioned, as a very subtle hint.
283* Abe from the video game series ''VideoGame/{{Oddworld}}'' had four fingers in the original game. It was changed to, not five, but ''three'' due to [[http://oddworldlibrary.net/archives/web/oddworld.com/alf/ow_ask.shtml controversy]] from Japan (scroll down to the eleventh question on the list).
284* Most of the non-human champions in ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'' have four-fingered hands, but Moji takes the cake by having ''three''-fingered hands.
285* Most Franchise/{{Pokemon}} that have hands and feet usually have three fingers/toes, unless they have human-shaped hands, in that case they usually have five. However, some might have four in earlier game sprites. Many usually have two toes on each foot, and some Pokémon based on cloven-hooved mammals have a single hoof on each foot. Their three-fingered hands can lead to unintentionally funny moments: see, with three fingers, the index finger is in the middle, so when certain Pokémon point in the anime, they're constantly flipping each other off.
286* Oddly enough, in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'', some characters have four fingers whereas other characters have the normal five. To further confusion, certain characters (such as Dr. Loboto) have more ''joints'' on each finger than their compatriots. Tim Schafer and Scott Campbell both, whether jokingly or not, refer to this "debacle" as the reason why the game never got released in Japan in the Psychonauts Vault Viewer app commentary.
287* The ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' games have an interesting subversion. Ratchet and any GirlOfTheWeek characters will have five fingers. Everyone else, no matter the species, has only ''three''. [[http://rcforum.us.playstation.com/t5/Ratchet-Clank-Going-Commando/Your-Theories-on-Angela-spoilers/m-p/25357/highlight/true The official reason for this]] is because Insomniac wanted to avoid any FourIsDeath connotations when they shipped the game to Japan, thus everyone who was originally intended to have four-fingered hands instead has three. This includes Captain Qwark, who otherwise looks human.
288* ''VideoGame/Shipwrecked64'': Played straight, and later, PlayedForHorror. [[ShowWithinAShow Bucky Beaver and his cast]] all[[note]]Except Giovanni Goose, who has wings ''without'' FeatherFingers[[/note]] have traditional four-fingered cartoon hands, being a direct pastiche of Franchise/MickeyMouse and friends. But... so do the {{Creepy Mascot Suit}}s in their likeness... Later in the game, you see one of them with the right hand of the suit removed. [[spoiler: Two of the person's fingers have been [[{{Fingore}} fused together to match the character]].]]
289* Every character in ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'' was designed with four fingers per hand. This is most noticeable in artwork, but in-game it can be seen on large characters like Mole Knight, Treasure Knight, Polar Knight and the final boss.
290* Most of the characters in ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}''.
291* While ''most'' characters in the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' games have five fingers per hand, the character Fang the Sniper (A.K.A. Nack the Weasel) has only four fingers per hand. Seemingly a reference to the fact that jerboas have four toes, as he's a wolf/jerboa hybrid (despite what his Western name claims).
292** The earliest ''Sonic'' cartoons (''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Sonic the Hedgehog|SatAM}}'') gave Sonic four fingers but ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'' changed that to five (see the Western Animation subsection for more information). The subsequent animated series have all kept the five-finger design as they draw directly from the video games.
293* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
294** Amazingly, both Bowser and Yoshi have four fingers. While the former is supposed to be a villain, one would wonder why a cute little dinosaur like Yoshi have four fingers instead of five like other fictional Japanese heroes.
295** The Mario Bros. and Peach in ''VideoGame/HotelMario''. The ''official'' versions of those characters have five fingers.
296** The Toads [[DependingOnTheArtist sometimes]] had four fingered hands, although the modern design of them have five fingered baby-like hands now.
297** The [[VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld cat suit]] only has four fingers on its glove, despite the heroes wearing it over their hands.
298* Character art from ''VideoGame/{{Torchlight}}'' shows that the characters have four fingers each, although it's hard to see in-game.
299* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'':
300** Mettaton, the game's resident human fanboy/robotic AgentPeacock, has four-fingered hands in WhiteGloves. According to WordOfGod, it's because all of his knowledge of humans comes from human media that has fallen into the Underground, including western cartoons, and the ubiquity of this trope left him confused over how many fingers humans usually have.
301** [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] with [[CuteMonsterGirl Muffet]], who is drawn with three fingers per hand (18 total) in-game, but four per (24 total) in TheMerch.
302** With the other monsters, [[OurMonstersAreWeird it varies wildly]]. Most of the monsters lack hands, though those who have them are usually either shown to have three to four fingers or [[FingerlessHands lack enough sprite detail to tell one way or the other]]. Monsters with [[SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism a more humanoid shape]], such as Knight Knight and Asgore, have five fingers on each hand.
303** On a related note, the Tough Glove is described as being "for five-fingered folk."
304* The Tauren and Trolls in the ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' universe only have three fingers on each hand. The Tauren's hands are evolved hooves most likely. [[AllTrollsAreDifferent The trolls are just trolls.]] Gnomes, goblins, and [[WolfMan worgen]] in beast-form have four fingers per hand, as do the Pandaren.
305* The Kilrathi in the ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' series are shown (usually) as having 4 digits, and use Base 8 numbering.
306* The characters in the classic arcade game ''Wrestling/{{WW|E}}F Wrestlefest'' are fairly accurate representations of real WWF wrestlers of the time -- except for their four-fingered hands.
307* In ''VideoGame/XCom'', most if not all Aliens only have four fingers.
308* Both ''VideoGame/{{Torchlight}}'' and ''VideoGame/TorchlightII'' have all the characters with four-fingered hands.
309* In ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'', Orisa is a robot that has a four fingered hand (the other arm being her ArmCannon). All the other characters, including the other robots, have five fingers.
310* Most of the species in ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' sport three or five fingers, but Grunts and Elites each have four - three fingers and an opposable thumb for Grunts, and two fingers and two opposable thumbs in the case of Elites. The Energy Sword, the Elites' legendary weapon, is also tailored-made for their weird hands, and apart from them, is only wieldable by Spartans.
311* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':
312** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestII'': [[{{Cyclops}} Atlas]]'s design has four-fingered hands and three-fingered feet.
313** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII'': [[BigBad Zoma]]'s original artwork and sprites show him with only four fingers on each hand, subtly emphasizing how inhuman he is despite otherwise looking more human-like overall than Baramos. Later remakes and cameos would give him a full five fingers.
314* Yordles in ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' are depicted with four-fingered hands and feet.
315* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': Wyverians are usually depicted with four digits to a hand. This was largely inconsequential for a long while, largely because it was hard to spot - the limited animation on [=NPCS=] meant little attention on hands, when they even bothered to render individual fingers. Until ''VideoGame/MonsterHunerRise'' that is, where plot-central Wyverian twins Hinao and Mikoto have their three-fingered hands lovingly rendered in all their animations, making them very noticeable and adding to their mysterious aura.
316* In ''VideoGame/UncleAlbertsAdventures'', the members of Chipikan's alien species have four fingers on each hand.
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319[[folder:Visual Novels]]
320* The rather simplistic sprites used in the original ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' novels all have very large, four-fingered hands. The anime changes to the more typical five.
321* Creator/NomnomNami usually draws four-fingered hands for her demon characters and five-fingered hands for her other characters, which is most noticeable in works such as ''VisualNovel/ContractDemon'' and ''VisualNovel/SexAdviceSuccubus''. The only exceptions are the demons from ''VideoGame/{{KAIMA}}'', which takes place in a different universe than her other works, and the Overlord from ''VisualNovel/BadEndTheater'', who looks different from the other demons due to [[spoiler:being based on a real person]].
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324[[folder:Web Animation]]
325* ''WebAnimation/AstroLOLogy'''s characters have four-fingered hands.
326* Lampshaded at the end of the "Metric vs. Imperial" movie in Website/BrainPOP. Tim explains that we use the decimal system because we have ten fingers and raises both hands up to show ten... only to realize that he's missing two.
327* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': The cast actually started out with ''three''-fingered hands! They eventually get that fourth digit in the ArtEvolution from episode 4 that ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'' brought.
328* Most of the characters in ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' have mittenlike hands (except for Lumpy, who always has fingers, and Handy, who has nubs), [[SuddenAnatomy but when they need fingers they have four on each hand (including a thumb)]].
329* All the characters in ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' have three fingers and a thumb in each hand.
330* In ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', most characters with visible fingers only have four of them ([[FingerlessHands or less]]), including Strong Sad and the Poopsmith. Strong Mad is a notable exception, as he has five-fingered hands in all but one instance ([[https://homestarrunner.com/sbemails/86-no-loafing sbemail 86]]), where he has four fingers in one scene due to an [[OffModel animation error]].
331* ''WebAnimation/{{Glitchtale}}'': Throughout the series, on humans and monsters alike. Given that one of the main characters can summon extra magic hands at will and there are numerous fight scenes involving said magic hands, taking animation shortcuts is entirely forgivable.
332* The human cast of ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated'' have only got four fingers on each hand. It's not limited to just humans as the fiery skeleton ghost Lewis and the blue plant person Shiromori also have a total of eight fingers each.
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335[[folder:Webcomics]]
336* All characters of ''Webcomic/CatLegend'' have always been drawn this way.
337* In ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'', having three fingers and a thumb seems to be not just an artist habit but a species trait, with some characters having three fingers and a thumb while others, usually horses or cows, have only three digits on each hand. As for [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_251.php humans,]] they tend to have a normal amount. (And yet the artist draws ''herself'' with only four digits, fueling speculation that [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_849.php she is secretly a Fraggle.]])
338* ''Webcomic/DorkTower'': In [[http://www.dorktower.com/2023/09/20/fingered-dork-tower-20-09-23 "Fingered"]], Matt recognizes an image as AI-generated because it has a five-fingered hand, which he and Kayleigh find horrific.
339* Mostly averted in ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'', where all the human characters have five fingers ... although Uma and her father, being aliens, have only four.
340* All the characters of ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}''. This is justified only in Florence, an [[WolfMan anthropomorphic wolf]], and Sam, a squidlike alien who wears an environment suit.
341* Averted in ''Webcomic/FuzzyThings'', though the "tradition" is discussed in [[http://www.furry.org.au/fz/story27/fz687.html this comic]]
342* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' follows this trope with one notable exception -- the [[FourTemperamentEnsemble Midnight Crew]] have [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002733 varying amounts of digits]]. It's likely just an artistic choice, [[spoiler:although their Dersite origins may offer an in-universe explanation]]. In the ''Descend'' animation, Jade is seen with four fingers except in the Hero Mode pictures where she's [[spoiler:slapping John]].
343* Most of the characters in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' have four fingers -- except for Ahem and the Nemesites, StarfishAliens who have only two.
344* ''Webcomic/MyMiddleNamesAdventure'' -- with the exception of Winston, who only has two.
345* ''Webcomic/NewtonTheNewt'' has characters with this.
346* All of the characters in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' have only ''three'' fingers. Given this is a StickFigureComic, they're lucky they have fingers at all. [[PlayedForLaughs It's also used for several jokes]]:
347** The "Bugsby's Hand" spells have four fingers, though. One of them can apparently be used to [[FlippingTheBird display your displeasure with someone]], but it happens off-screen so we can't be sure how it managed that.
348--->'''Vaarsuvius:''' [[CallingYourAttacks Bugsby's Expressive Digit!]]
349** At one point [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall a character questions]] whether they really even have anything that qualifies as a "thumb".
350** [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1281.html #1281: "But It Gets Better Every Generation"]]: A mimic takes on human form, and Belkar and Elan complain about it actually having four fingers and a thumb.
351--->'''Elan:''' ''Ewww'', gross!\
352'''Belkar:''' ''Haha'', wow, that is ''not'' the right number of fingers!\
353'''Serini Toormuck:''' Yeah, it's weird. They can copy anything but for some reason they always mess up the hands.
354* ''Webcomic/{{Terinu}}'' being a gene-gineered alien, has four fingers and three toes (three and a dewclaw) like his animal predecessors. Strangely, every ''other'' alien in the series has five fingers.
355* ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl'' averts this. [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Demons]] and {{Funny Animal}}s have four fingers, but all humans have five.
356* [[{{Squick}} It turns out]] there's a ''[[http://darklegacycomics.com/258.html reason]]'' for this in ''WebComic/DarkLegacyComics.''
357* The characters in ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'' are drawn like this.
358* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' as by Krahulik nearly always draws only three fingers and a thumb, even in relatively "realistic" stories like in "Sand". There are exceptions to this, such as the female assassin with the umbrella fighting the Cardboard Tube Samurai, but those are highly unusual. Compare [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/9/27/ this]] comic with [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/12/3/ this]] comic.
359* Lampshaded in ''Webcomic/UserFriendly'', while breaking the fourth wall.
360* The furries from ''Webcomic/StubbleTrouble'' have four fingers while the humans have five fingers. Some hoofed animals are seen with three hoof-fingers.
361* [[http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/images/commanderbadass.jpg This concept art]] of Commander Badass (which predates the comic ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'') shows him with four fingers, but in the comic itself, the Commander (and everyone else) has five.
362* Parodied in [[http://geektionnerd.net/main/ this French webcomic]], ''Le Geektionnerd''. The characters read a human hand has five fingers, writes over it, and complains about the blog being crap.
363* ''Webcomic/TheNoob'' has four fingers on each hand, and is thus [[FridgeBrilliance actually showing six fingers]] [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=374 in this comic]].
364* In the first few strips of ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'', Doc was depicted with 5-digit hands, but shortly after the strip's name became an ArtifactTitle, the character design was changed to have 4-digit hands, with a note by the author explaining the change.
365* In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', humans and demons have five fingers per hands. The goblins and about every non-human races (including elves and dwarves) have four-fingered hands. Reptiles (like kobolds, yuan-ti or lizardfolks) tends to have three-fingered hands. All non-humans (well, those with legs anyway) also have three-toed feet.
366* ''Webcomic/KarateBears'': [[http://www.karatebears.com/2011/04/smart.html They usually have four fingers.]]
367* ''Webcomic/TheCyantianChronicles'' averts this with most immigrant Cyantians, with the exception of foxes. Leading some fans to comment "that fox has too many fingers" when the artist slips up and accidentally draws one with five.
368* ''Webcomic/MyRoommateIsAnElf''. All characters have these, along with WhiteGloves.
369* Zack of ''Webcomic/UrbanJungle'' is only drawn with three fingers and a thumb on each hand. It isn't until [[http://www.urbanjunglecomic.com/?p=1126 this strip]] we learn why.
370* ''Webcomic/ThePackrat''. Makes one wonder how different playing keyboards is with only four fingers per hand.
371* Everyone in ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty'', in keeping with the comic's cartoony atmosphere.
372* ''Webcomic/BlueMilkSpecial'' does it...which makes it look a little weird when [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] does the [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcan]] [[http://www.bluemilkspecial.com/?p=5258 salute]].
373* All characters, human or otherwise, in ''Webcomic/TheMansionOfE'' have four fingers (if they have hands). This is not just an artistic convenience; when a human character visits from [[{{Crossover}} another webcomic]], he has five fingers. The 4-fingered trait seems to have influenced the development of their societies: they seem to use a base-8 number system, even saying "4 minutes" when real-world humans would say 5. (Correspondingly, they have 20 hours in the day.)
374* Lyra from ''Webcomic/HeartStrings'' can magically project arms from her body, all of which have four fingered hands. This is much to her confusion as she [[{{Animorphism}} used to be a five fingered human.]] It goes further when Bon Bon explains that no creature in [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Equestria]] naturally exists with more than four fingers.
375* In ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'', the Jakkai and Khamega races play this trope straight. Pointed out and PlayedForLaughs in [[http://hyenafu.tumblr.com/post/104256232139/does-medius-have-sub-languages-apart-from-just this post]] by the author herself. Since all demons look different some have five fingered hands, some have four fingers and others have only three, even then it can still be rather varied as in addition to the traditional four fingered look we meet one demon ([[spoiler:Buwaro's [[PosthumousCharacter late]] father]]) who had four fingers and no thumbs on his hands and some of the three fingered demons have a [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles ninja turtle-esce]] design of two-fingers-and-a-thumb while a few had three fingers and no thumbs.
376* Usually, the human characters in ''Webcomic/FluffyAndMervin'' have five fingers, and the FunnyAnimal characters have four.
377* ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'': Lampshaded in [[http://www.gpf-comics.com/archive/2005/04/11 this strip]]
378* {{Justified|Trope}} in ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'' by the fact that the characters are anthropomorphic cats.
379* ''Webcomic/ResNullius'': Reasonable for the alien Hazel. Lampshaded for the human Sam.
380-->''24th century geneticists realized the fundamental truth that the fifth finger was a fundamental defect, and efforts were made to correct the problem so that we could be more like our glorious cartoon super men.''
381* Mutants in ''Webcomic/{{Endtown}}'' tend to have four fingers, which becomes a plot point when it turns out that mutants who were human still think of themselves as having five fingers and [[GoMadFromTheRevelation have a mental breakdown when they try counting to five]]. One of the first things Flask notes when she's infected with the virus (after her pointed teeth) is the pinkies on her gloves [[http://www.gocomics.com/endtown/2012/09/07 flopping]].
382* In ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'', King determines that a squirrel is a [[ForcedTransformation transformed human]] by asking him to hold up [[http://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2019/09/02/high-four/ five fingers]].
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384
385[[folder:Web Original]]
386* In ''WebVideo/TheCartoonMan'', Roy's hands have only four fingers when in he is in his cartoon form.
387* A majority of characters in ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'' have only four fingers, likely due to the series being a parody of children's puppet shows. The characters who don't have hands like these, the costume characters, have mitten hands instead.
388* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'': A majority of the puppets have only four fingers. Justified because puppets usually have these to prevent an accidental [[FlippingTheBird middle finger]]. This has actually been lampshaded numerous times, mostly by Jeffy. Apparently they are missing the middle finger.
389* The Creator/McLeodGaming logo is a fist with three fingers and a thumb. [[https://www.mcleodgaming.com/wp-content/themes/MGTheme/img/logofull.png This is done to resemble the letter M]].
390* ''ARG/TheNoedolekcinArchives'': Upon closer inspection of Kirk Odd's Website/{{Scratch}} model, he has only three fingers on his hands.
391[[/folder]]
392
393[[folder:Real Life]]
394* Hippopotami have four toes on each foot.
395* Spider monkeys' thumbs are fused with their palms, an adaptation that ensures this digit won't get in the way when they brachiate from tree branches.
396* Amphibians have four clawless digits on each hand, but have five digits on their back feet.
397* Paleontology
398** ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' has two fingers on each hand, but four toes on each foot.
399** Yet also inverted with ''Mononykus'', whose name even means "one claw".
400** Hadrosaurs have only four fingers on each hand, with no thumbs.
401** While the "standard" number of digits was really five at the beginning of their evolution, the carnivorous dinosaurs usually only had four (especially the more primitive ones), but three-fingered hands were the most prominent by far. However the tyrannosaurids and alvarezsaurids (to whom ''Mononykus'' belongs) weren't the only groups to have reduced their finger numbers: abelisaurids had virtually ''no'' fingers, just stubs, and, of course, there are the ''birds'', the most obvious examples[[note]]Birds actually have three-fingered hands, like most theropods, but the second and third fingers are fused together[[/note]].
402** Pterosaurs had four digits on their forelimbs, one of which was modified to support their wings.
403** Inverted by some of the earliest basal tetrapods, which had ''seven'' toes on each proto-foot.
404* In dreams if you look at your hands they will often have the wrong number of fingers (whether too few or too many) or have something else wrong with them, which can clue you in that you're dreaming.
405[[/folder]]
406
407!!Reduced Number of Toes Variant:
408
409[[folder:Anime And Manga]]
410* Many Franchise/{{Pokemon}} with feet will usually have less digits than their upper limbs (barring wings, fins, claws, scythes and tentacles). The best example is Pikachu, who has five tiny digits on each "hand" and three digits on each foot. Other examples include Clefairy, Cubone and Marowak, Rhyperior and Hitmonlee and Conkeldurr. Although, the reverse is also true, especially for Kyurem (in normal form), Bagon, Raichu, Anpharos, Growlithe and Chansey. Averted with Infernape, who actually have 5 toes on each foot.
411* Ditto with Franchise/{{Digimon}}. Some digimon, including more animalistic types, have three-toed feet with four or five fingered hands such as Veemon. However, others may have the same exact number of toes and fingers such as Agumon (who has three digits) and Leomon (who has five digits). And then there are the digimon who have their feet covered, such as Beelzemon or Knightmon....
412* ''Manga/KaijuGirlCaramelise'': Whenever Kuroe Akaishi transforms into Harugon, her {{Notzilla}} form, she is shown to have just four clawed toes. Unlike its inspiration Godzilla, however, the Harugon form still has five fingers.
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414
415[[folder:Comic Books]]
416* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': ComicBook/TheThing has three toes per foot.
417* ''Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk'': The Hulk has had an ever-changing number of toes. When he first appeared, he had five toes. When his book was cancelled and he resurfaced in ''Fantastic Four'', he now had three. When he joined the Avengers, he then had four, but went back to three by the second issue, only for this number to vary wildly in each subsequent appearance before the artists finally settled on five in ''ComicBook/TalesToAstonish''. This was the subject in a MythologyGag in ''ComicBook/UltronForever'', where the Hulk transported from the past still had three toes.
418* ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'': Cerebus' otherwise human son had three toes per foot, just like his father.
419* The Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles take this a step further -- each of the turtles has only three fingers on each hand, and only ''TWO'' toes on each foot. Lampshaded in [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 the 2003 series]] when Raph rates Leo's performance of a kick.
420-->'''Leonardo:''' Hey, Raph, only a six?\
421'''Raphael:''' Bro, it's all I got!
422* Comicbook/TheSavageDragon has two toes on each foot.
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424
425[[folder:Comic Strips]]
426* Odie from ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' has two-toed feet, while the titular character has three-toed feet.
427[[/folder]]
428
429[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
430* Mittens from ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' plays this trope straight by having three-toed paws, but Bolt averts this trope by having the proper four-toed paws.
431* {{WesternAnimation/Cinderella}}, for some reason, doesn't have any toes.
432* Scratette from ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs'' has three-fingered hands and two-toed feet, while Scrat from all four ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' movies has the standard four-fingered hands and three-toed feet.
433* Ducky, the animated hadrosaur from ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'', has the correct number of digits on all four limbs (four-toed front feet and three-toed hind feet), although her opposable thumbs are out of place.
434* The lions in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' avert this trope by having the proper four-toed paws, but the hyenas and meerkats play this trope straight by having three-toed paws. The lions also show dew-claw-lumps (thumbs) on their front paws.
435* The humans in ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'' were animated without toes according to WordOfGod.
436* Most ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' characters have four fingers and four toes, but a few particular species have three toes instead.
437* Joy from ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' doesn't have any toes.
438* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' it's played straight with all mammal species that have claws or paws, like foxes, rabbits, mice, etc. But addition, all cloven-hoofed species, like buffalo, sheep, and gazelles, are consistently shown with three — two "fingers" and a "thumb". And bizarrely enough, odd-toed ungulates (horses and zebras) [[http://i.imgur.com/Kl0mjcm.png don't have any fingers at all!]] This makes for an amusing sight when, as Bogo is about to kick Judy off of her case, Nick proclaims that she still has ''ten'' hours to solve it -- while holding up all ''eight'' fingers.
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441[[folder:Literature]]
442* Happens even in literature! In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', when Rachel morphed into a cat and scratches someone, she notes that it left "three red lines" on the back of his hand. Also, ankles "reversed" when morphing anything four-footed. Applegate, a grown sci-fi author, apparently don't know about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitigrade digitigrade]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantigrade plantigrade]] feet, although the morphing process ''is'' stated to change the body at random.
443* An {{inver|tedTrope}}sion in ''[[Literature/InheritanceCycle Eragon]]''. Dwarves and Urgals have seven toes on each foot.
444* Tolkien did that inversion first in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', with the seven-toed [[WiseTree Treebeard]].
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446
447[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
448* This trope's presence in cartoons is alluded to in the ''75th [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Academy Awards]]'', when Jennifer Garner and [[RogerRabbitEffect Mickey Mouse]] were about to announce the nominees for Best Animated Short Film. After being complimented for his tuxedo, Mickey compliments Jennifer Garner's shoes, before counting her toes. He says "Five toes?" in a confused tone before whistling.
449* The Diffys on ''Series/PhilOfTheFuture'' have five-fingered hands... but they have four-toed feet, which is a plot point when Phil has to go barefoot on a field trip.
450[[/folder]]
451
452[[folder:Video Games]]
453* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': The [[BirdPeople Rito]] characters are portrayed with just two front toes instead of three as with most real life birds.
454%%* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Most Pokémon fall under this.
455* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': The animal characters have no toes at all. The rare time they're seen without their shoes, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150725230636/http://art.sonicresearch.org/albums/Tails/Sonic_Adventure/t_d5.png they just have oval-ish lumps with no features on them whatsoever]]. However, if ''[[VideoGame/SegaSuperstars All-Stars Racing Transformed]]'' is anything to go by, driving through electricity or being hit with an electric All-Star move shows that the Sonic characters have ''toe bones''.
456[[/folder]]
457
458[[folder:Web Animation]]
459* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' usually gives characters boot-shaped feet, though they actually have three toes on each foot otherwise.
460[[/folder]]
461
462[[folder:Webcomics]]
463* ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'': While the [rarely seen] humans have five fingers, the animals have four fingers and three toes. This is Lampshaded when King has a simple test to see if Marion the squirrel is really a [[ForcedTransformation transformed human]]. He asks the squirrel to hold up five fingers, and Marion automatically raises one hand, then realises that's only four.
464* ''Webcomic/ScoobAndShag'': Humanoid Toones have four fingers in each hand, while Earthlings have five. This is especially notable in a flashback, where we see Shag walking among Earth humans, as is brought as one of the reasons why [[spoiler:his human friends knew something was up with him]].
465* ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'': In a couple comics Naps gets stoned and starts thinking he has too few fingers, and why he only has three toes, [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20130425.html four or five toes would spread the weight out more effectively]].
466-->''Kingston: "It would be a pain in the arse to draw though!"''\
467''Naps: "Not really! [[SelfDeprecation Not unless you're a lazy hack!]]"''
468[[/folder]]
469
470[[folder:Western Animation]]
471* Most cartoon birds are often drawn with only two front toes.
472* On ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', characters not only have only four fingers, but only three toes.
473** In the same vein, ''WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg''.
474** However, in Ed's story in "Once Upon An Ed", a close-up of the giant Kankers' feet shows four toes.
475* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' characters go one step further by having four-fingered hands, and ''three-toed feet''.
476** Though in "Dripper" a close-up of Fred's new "brake pads" show four toes.
477** In the spin-off series ''Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm'', the title characters have four fingers and toes.
478* Jerry from ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' has two-toed feet.
479* Nearly all Creator/WarnerBros ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' animal characters have three-toed feet too.
480** And WesternAnimation/BugsBunny's feet have three dots on the bottom, two small and one large, suggesting pads like on a dog's paw. This doesn't match the number of pads a three-toed mammal ought to have: one per toe, plus a bigger pad for the sole. To make matters worse, real rabbits' paws don't have pads at all.
481** And just like Jerry, Speedy Gonzales also has two-toed feet.
482** A striking example in ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatPiggyBankRobbery'': the human postman's hand delivering the comics (realistically-drawn, if rather knuckly) is also four-fingered. It looks pretty odd.
483* Most Disney animal characters have three-toed feet. Though characters such as [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Mickey]], [[WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse Minnie]], and WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} have four toes.
484* WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker has two-toed feet.
485** Woodpeckers in real life have feet with their toes in a kind of X formation -- two forwards (the 2nd and 3rd digits), and two backwards (1st and 4th digits), to allow for clinging to rough vertical surfaces like tree bark. These are known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactyly#Zygodactyly Zygodactyl]] feet.
486** Except [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_three-toed_woodpecker Three-toed woodpeckers]], which, as their name implies, have only three toes (missing their inward back toe).
487* Both protagonists in ''WesternAnimation/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'', a dog and rabbit team, have three-toed feet. Lampshaded in "Moai Better Blues" from the video game series, when a tribe of foot-worshipping ocean chimps mentions that, despite fitting some general descriptors of their prophecies of the true high priest, he's ineligible for any role holier than sidekick to the high priest, because while he was blessed with feet, they're not complete. Max claims he never noticed before, and is suddenly repulsed by Sam's freakish feet.
488* The cast of ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin''.
489* The cast of ''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldWithWillyFog''.
490* Averted in the ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' cartoons, where the characters have five (or in the 1950s, four) toes on each foot. Played straight by Popeye in "A Job For A Gob" and Olive in "Beach Peach".
491* Used on ''WesternAnimation/LittlePeopleEgmont'', a series of claymation shorts based on toys by Fisher-Price.
492* In ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', Mordecai the Blue Jay has two-toed feet.
493* Lucy, the only human character on ''64 Zoo Lane'', and she is usually if not always shown barefoot.
494* ''WesternAnimation/SquirrelBoy'' averts it for the humans and the animals; they all have five fingers on each hand. However, the animals mostly have three toes on each foot. Rodney's cousin Eddie has four toes.
495* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' is actually somewhat of an inversion. From a distance, it looks like the humans only have three toes, but whenever there is a need for a foot focus scene, or a GrossUpCloseUp, they have four toes.
496* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the Cliptastic Countdown when Dr. Doofenshmirtz introduces song #4.
497* Averted in Creator/TexAvery's "Billy Boy" - the title goat grazes off the front of the wolf/farmer's clodhopper shoe. He cries out "Just a minute here! [counts toes - on one foot, mind you] 2-4-6-8-10. Nope - they all there!"
498* Averted for ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''.
499* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', all humans have normal toes, but the gargoyles have three toes. The sole exception is the Japanese gargoyle named Sora, who has two toes.
500[[/folder]]
501
502[[folder:Real Life]]
503* Guinea pigs, capybaras, maras, and other cavies have four-toed front feet and three-toed hind feet.
504* Parrots, woodpeckers, and owls have two toes that point forward and two that point back.
505* Ostriches have two-toed feet, in contrast to most birds which have three-toed or four-toed feet.
506* There's a tribe in Africa known as the "Ostrich-Footed People" due to having two-toed, birdlike feet as a result of a hereditary mutation. Apparently it's related to what Lobster Boy had.
507* Inverted with the cats living in Ernest Hemingway's Florida home. There are over 100 cats living there, and about half of them have six "toes" on each paw.
508** Polydactyl cats were at one time reasonably common as mascots on sailing ships, especially those sailing out of New England. This is where Hemingway's cats ultimately came from: a ship's captain gave Hemingway a polydactyl cat, and Hemingway liked it so much he sought out/bred more.
509* Two-toed sloths, as their name implies, have only two clawed toes on their forefeet, with three toes on their hindfeet. Three-toed sloths, on the other hand, have three toes on all of their limbs.
510* The blind, snake-like amphibious underground [[http://natural-wild-life.blogspot.com/2011/08/olm.html Olm]] is notable for having only three tiny "fingers" on their front limbs and two stumpy digits in the rear.
511* The all-famous UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex has only two functioning fingers (with a residual nonfunctional third finger) on their forelimbs and three clawed toes on their hind feet.
512* As a rule, archosaurs (the broad group of reptiles that dinosaurs, pterosaurs, crocodilians, and their closest relatives belong to) can have only up to four toes on the back foot.
513* Because cats and dogs are digitigrade and don't stand on their carpal pads (which come out of the wrist), they leave four-toed pawprints.
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